Camacho Díaz, Judit (Date of defense: 2014-06-19)
Since white dwarfs are the final stage of the evolution of the vast majority of stars, they carry important information about the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, its star formation rate, and its ...
Renedo Rouco, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-11-13)
White dwarfs are the most common stellar evolutionary end-point. Moreover, they can be considered as reliable cosmic clocks to infer the age of a wide variety of stellar populations, including globular ...
Aznar Siguan, Gabriela (Date of defense: 2015-04-30)
Merging white dwarfs is a promising channel to trigger Type Ia supernovae, known as the double degenerate scenario. Supernovae are stellar explosions that radiate as much energy as any ordinary star is ...